Since Mexican media have largely given up reporting on the druggy mess, through fear and compliance social networking sites are becoming the "primary news sources in scores of Mexican communities," the Chronicle reckons, even for family members in the U.S., as gangs battle cartel rivals and security forces.

The Mexican newspaper Vanguardia reports that one bodies of a man in his 20s and the other of a woman in her 20s. "In plain sight, you could tell that before they were assassinated, both of them had be tortured," the paper reports.